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TIL: about Hyperthymesia which allows 10 confirmed cases in the world to remember every moment of their life with perfect recall.

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Bw9e TIL that the same $99 microphone has been used by every president since 1965
LkaR9 TIL that two-star orbiting planets like Star Wars' Tatooine were by wide consensus considered impossible, and the first such planet was only confirmed as recently as 2011
mxGBy TIL there's a genre of music called Breakcore that utilizes traditional elements of hardcore, breakbeat, and drum n bass but at insane tempos and in non-traditional song structures and time signatures usually through manipulating samples. Venetian Snares is an example of one such artist.
MD0V TIL for the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, homelessness was criminalized in the city. Those arrested during the Games were held for trial until after the event was over
p8bkb TIL of Sogen Kato who was believed to be the oldest man alive in Tokyo at 111 years old until his mummified corpse was found in his bedroom. He died at 79 and his family simply never reported this to authorities.